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On the heels of his first foreign trip to Saudi Arabia, day one of President Donald Trump’s two-day stop in Israel included a first for a sitting president: a visit to the Western Wall.
“Words...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian president is accusing Israel of "ethnic cleansing," days after Israel's leader lobbed that same allegation at the Palestinians.
President Mahmoud Abbas has made the claim against Israel in the past. But his remarks late...

WASHINGTON (AP) — American influence over the Middle East could slip a notch after Israel and the Palestinians agreed in principle to Russian-organized talks in Moscow. That is, if the negotiations ever happen.
Russia has clamored unsuccessfully for...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday that the Israeli and the Palestinian leaders have agreed "in principle" to meet in Moscow for talks in what the Russians hope will relaunch the Mideast peace process after a more than...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian high court on Thursday postponed municipal elections that had been set for next month, putting on hold what would have been the first real test of political support for archrivals Hamas and Fatah in a decade.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian president says he will sue Great Britain over the 1917 Balfour Declaration and its support for a Jewish national home in the Holy Land.
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki made the announcement on behalf of Mahmoud...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police on Tuesday banned non-Muslims from a contentious Jerusalem holy site until the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan following two days of clashes with Palestinians at the site.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has disavowed comments he made this week about an alleged plot by rabbis calling on Jewish settlers to poison the drinking water of Palestinians.
In a fiery speech to the European Union in...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank has called for municipal elections to be held October 8, but it is unclear whether the Islamic militant group Hamas will participate.
The authority, headed by Western-backed...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The party of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is praising the gunmen who killed 24 people when they attacked an Israeli airport in 1972.
Three members of the Japanese Red Army recruited by a Palestinian militant group,...

BIRZEIT, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinians opened a dazzling new museum Wednesday aimed at telling the tale of their history and culture, but the building is devoid of exhibits.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas inaugurated the museum, the biggest...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian's leading university in the West Bank says the Islamic militant group Hamas has won student council elections.
A Birzeit University spokesman on Wednesday announced the election results, saying Hamas won 25...

HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — A 12-year-old Palestinian girl, imprisoned by Israel after she confessed to planning a stabbing attack on Israelis in a West Bank settlement, returned home Sunday after she was freed early following an appeal.
Dima al-Wawi is...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Palestinians said Thursday they strongly support a French initiative to hold a ministerial meeting, probably on May 30, as a first step to an international conference aimed at reviving the long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace...

BERLIN (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, speaking a day after an attack on a bus in Jerusalem that wounded at least 21 people, says his administration rejects violence against civilians.
Abbas said during a visit to Germany on Tuesday that...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden acknowledged "overwhelming frustration" with Israel's government on Monday and said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's administration has led Israel in the wrong direction, in an unusually sharp rebuke of...

BEIRUT (AP) — An explosion just outside the southern Lebanese city of Sidon on Tuesday killed a local Palestinian security official amid tensions between the main Palestinian faction and extremists groups.
The blast instantly killed the official, a...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Poll results have been consistent over six months and were affirmed Monday: two-thirds of Palestinians would like President Mahmoud Abbas to resign after a string of policy failures. Yet the Palestinian leader does not appear to...